Posted on 05/18/2012 10:28:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway
You know who you are: You broke Bill Maher's heart. Remember that? It was sophomore year at Pascack Hills High School, and the awkward kid from River Vale was on top of the world.
He wasn't one of the cool kids. He was half-nerd (who ranked seventh in a class of 400-plus students), half-class-clown (whose a-little-too-edgy standup act forced the termination of the long-running school talent show).
He was trying to fit in, like every high school kid, and he had a girlfriend — that bulletproof vest for the male ego against the social ammunition of the painful teen years. Life was pretty good for a 15-year-old.
But then you dumped him and left him devastated.
He recently referred to his high school years this way: "I was kind of a loser, certainly socially. I've never felt anything as bad as high school. That was crushing."
Do you feel bad yet?
And just for the record: He still remembers you — even now, when he's a standup comedy star, even now when he's making tens of millions of dollars eye-poking Rush Limbaugh, lampooning Fox News pundits and shaping American political thought on his HBO show, "Real Time."
Look, the guy is huge. He's made it. Big-time. He's spent years dating models. He's got so much money he just gave a million bucks to the president's super PAC.
Now, we're not saying you blew it, but if you get a message from him sometime, say "hi" back. For old times' sake. The guy can get President Obama on the phone like that. He's a good friend to have. So, if he reaches out ...
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
Creepy, vile, soulless bastard.
Another reason not to subscribe to the Starledger...
That’s so sad.
I am so glad that everyone looked so cool in high school. It is one thing to disagree...which I did by cancelling HBO, but it is another to attack people on their looks / actions in their earlier years. I am pretty sure that we could all find some stupid things we said or did in our youth.
I vote that we keep this intellectual. Emotional arguments are the tools of the uniformed portion of the “what is left”.
I’ll bet Maher got is share of Weggies in High School. I’m sure the girl decided she didn’t want to be seen with such a wimp.
... and no one will miss him when he's gone.
Bill Maher’s girlfriend was no composite. She was 100% vinyl.
When and if the “SHTF” ever happens, and I’m scanning the horizon on watch for zombies, that’s a face I hope to see in my optics...
(just sayin’)
(basically noting that the Starledger kills trees to print stuff like this..)
You replied to me:
I am so glad that everyone looked so cool in high school. It is one thing to disagree...which I did by cancelling HBO, but it is another to attack people on their looks / actions in their earlier years. I am pretty sure that we could all find some stupid things we said or did in our youth.
I vote that we keep this intellectual. Emotional arguments are the tools of the uniformed portion of the “what is left”.
I must be a tad slow this early am, but I fail to see any manner of application of your comment to mine.
Maybe you could elucidate..
I’m getting kind of weepy like......
hahahahahahahaha...Nope
I really want to reply....but I’m crying so hard I just can’t.
After Charles Shultz died, someone did a one hour documentary, and they found “the little redhaired girl”, a classmate from art school he had apparently still carried a torch for. When they asked her if she regretted not having married him, she rolled her eyes and said “No.” without the least hesitation. Charles Shultz, you blockhead.
Gee whizz Bill, what did you expect?
Is THAT what they're called now? I suppose if a girl is pulling down 6 figures it has a career name.
I avoided pictures. After 6th grade, you cannot find a school picture of me. Every yearbook I have has “missing from picture EQ”
Bill Maher’s “girlfriend” was the Sept 1974 Playboy magazine till Mom found it in the closet.
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